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four feet. Spikes lateral, the inferior fertile portion not longer than 
the rosy coma. Flowers the length of the bractes ; exterior border 
slightly tinged with pink ; inner yellow. In the structure of the fruit 
it — perfectly with that of C. Zerumbet. 
11. C. angustifolia. R. 
Bulb oblong, with pale, oblong, pendulous tubers only. Leaves 
petioled, narrow-lanceolar. Flowers = pun the bractes. 
"Tikor of the Hindoos. 
Found by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq. in the Eris d Ka the banks 
of the Sue to  Nagpore, and by him introduced into the Botanic Gar- 
— den at Caleutte , where it blossoms in July. "The leaves : make -r 
appearance at the same time with those of the other species 
decay about the beginning of the cool season, in November. 
Root, from a fusiform biennial crown issue many fleshy fi bres, 
which end in smooth, oval, succulent tubers.— Stem, consisting of 
a few pale-coloured, leafless, surrounding sheaths.— Leaves petiol- 
ed, narrow-lanceolar, most acute, striated with fine parallel veins, 
smooth on both sides ; length from one to three feet, (petiole and 
‘sheath included,) which is in fact the whole height of the plant.— 
Petioles from six to twelve inches long, the lower half or more of 
which, expands into a sheath to embrace those within; the upper 
half or proper petioles slender, and channelled.— Spike radical, from 
four to six inches long, separate from the leaves, crowned with a 
tuft of oval, lively purple, neuter bractes.— Bractes common below 
the coloured neuter ones, ovate-cordate, obtuse, expanding recurv- 
edly, each embracing three or four flowers, which open in suc- 
cession.— Bractes proper boat-shaped, embracing the proper pe- 
rianth, and germ of each flower. — Flowers large, longer than their 
bractes, bright yellow, expanding at sun-rise, and decaying at sun- 
set of the same day.— Calyx above, three-toothed, somewhat 3 in- 
flated.—Corol, tube somewhat gibbous, contracted at the jouth, 
and there shut with short hairs; ¿throat campanulate ; j ei 
. der pale-yellow, consisting of one Wes eh. up; e eg 
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